This week’s theme
No el

This week’s words
folkmoot
qualm
pastillage
psalm
pointillage

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(kwam, kwom)

MEANING:

noun:
1. An uneasy feeling about the rightness of a course of action.
2. A sudden feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1531.

USAGE:

“Justice Samuel Alito, in his majority opinion, had no qualms about focusing his analysis on a period when American women were second class citizens, decades away from winning the right to vote.”
History Test; The Economist (London, UK); Aug 20, 2022.

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